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“When I would play pop music at underground shows, it was offensive to some people. I wasn't doing it to piss people off: I just didn't believe in those strong divisions that you're supposed to listen to this or that.”

People Believe Play Shows Strong Pops Division Offensive Pop Music

Author:Girl Talk

“When I would present my work as a student, often I would hear, "Your project is too formal" - it's too form-based; it's too form-driven. Which is kind of shocking for a visual practice, for someone to say something discouraging about a focus on an exploration of aesthetics.”

Kind Form Practice Focus Students Projects Driven Visuals Exploration Formal Shocking Aesthetics Discouraging

Author:Jimenez Lai

“When I would sell encyclopedias, I would drive down the road looking for a house with a swing set in the back, and I'd say, "Oh, those folks got kids. They need some books." I'd knock on their door and sell them a set of encyclopedias, and those books were from $300 to $600. I'd look around the house, and if there wasn't that much furniture in the house, I felt a little bad about selling a $600 set of books to people who couldn't afford a couch. So I didn't last at that job very long.”

People Ifs Needs Looks Littles Long Book Kids Jobs Lasts House Felt Doors Sells Folks Selling Swings Furniture Couches Down The Road Encyclopedia Swing Sets

Author:Willie Nelson

“When I would work freelance in production in Chicago, there were a lot of times when I was working for cheap, bad people, and I was working for slave wages anyway, so there were some times when I might have filled out a couple of blank taxi receipts and kept some petty cash. But like I say, I was very selective. It was only people that I thought were assholes. The people that I liked I went far and above saving them money, much less taking it. But that's it. I'm pretty moral. I don't even like stealing jokes.”

People Moral Couple Jokes Slave Stealing Bad People Taxi

Author:Andy Richter

“When I wouldn't leave home without my blue contacts or when I was bleaching my hair, I didn't have the language to articulate that I was trying to assimilate to whiteness. If anything, I was trying to "look normal."”

Ifs Trying Looks Home Language Hair Normal Blue Contact Whiteness Bleaching

Author:Vivek Shraya

“When I wrestled in College, my team was very good.”

Team College Very Good

Author:William Baldwin

“When I wrestled, I would set aside the time to wrestle, so that in my mind it didn't interfere with my study time. If I'd say, "I'm going to study this many hours, then I'm going to go work out and wrestle," then when that time comes, you don't feel like you should be doing something else. That helped me psychologically. But otherwise? When I'm wrestling, I'm not studying the universe. And when I'm studying the universe, I'm not wrestling.”

Ifs Feels Should Mind Universe Hours Study Like You Work Out Wrestling Interfere

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“when I wrestled, I would set aside the time to wrestle, so that in my mind it didn't interfere with my study time. That helped me psychologically. When I'm wrestling, I'm not studying the universe. And when I'm studying the universe, I'm not wrestling.”

Mind Universe Study Wrestling Interfere

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“When I write "paradise" I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and Gila monsters, sandstorms, volcanoes and earthquakes, bacteria and bear, cactus, yucca, bladderweed, ocotillo and mesquite, flash floods and quicksand, and yes - disease and death and the rotting of flesh.”

“When I write - I always write on my own - I demo those songs on a four-track.”

Writing Song My Own Four Track Demos

Author:PJ Harvey

“When I write a book I write the best that I can and so much of that for me is following the book's demands, the subject's requirements - I love books, I always have. They have always been one of the places where I have felt very happy in the world. When I was younger, I loved to read genre fiction - I loved the magic-carpet ride of story! Now I need other things - I need the beautiful particular and strange language and form which brings a writer's book to life in me and speaks to my intellect, and, dare I say it, to my soul.”

“When I write a book I'm always questioning the project as a whole. I always feel I might have to just throw it away and forget about it, and I've done that with novels I've started and worked on for a long time. It's an option I need in order to write freely.”

Needs Feels Writing Long Book Done Whole Might Order Forget Novel Projects Long Time Questioning

Author:Daniel Kehlmann

“When I write a book, I don't have a plan or an outline. The characters move the action, and the action develops the characters. When I write a book, I become an actor, really, taking the role of the person who is speaking or acting at the time, and so their reactions to whatever they see are my reactions.”

Writing Book Character Action Moving Acting

Author:Russell Hoban

“When I write a book, I hope to be beyond mortal by the time I'm finished.”

Writing Book Finished Mortals

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“When I write a book, I put everything I have into it; so the more I have, the more the books become. Some people get freaked out by them: mostly the people who believe, mistakenly, that fantasy is about escaping reality. To them I say: If you have a problem with reality, you should be spending more time dealing with your life, and less time reading popcorn fantasy.”

People Ifs Should Writing Believe Book Problem Reality Reading Fantasy Spending More Time Escaping Popcorn

Author:Matthew Woodring Stover

“When I write a book, I write very cleanly from page one to the last page. I hardly ever write out of sequence.”

Writing Book Lasts Pages Sequence

Author:Gregory Maguire

“When I write a book, I'm making it the best book I can.”

Writing I Can Book

Author:Thomas Perry

“When I write a film, all I think about is where the thing ends and how to get the audience there.”

Thinking Writing Ends Film Audience

Author:Jason Reitman

“When I write a film, I have already made the trailer”

Writing Made Film Trailers

Author:Xavier Dolan

“When I write a film, the film gets handed off to a producer and a director and I go my merry way. With television, I am expected and contracted to stick around and actually produce what I've written.”

Way Writing Film Written Produce Television Directors Sticks Expected Producers Merry

Author:Marc Guggenheim

“When I write a film, there's a particular thing I am wrestling with and the question or concern I'm dealing with has to be big enough for me to dedicate a year or two of my life. If the question isn't big enough, or rich enough, I'll lose interest.”

Ifs Writing Years Two Enough Bigs Film Interest Loses Rich Particular Concern Wrestling

Author:Josh Radnor

“When I write a new draft, I don't like to feel I'm tied to any previous version. That's why I don't use a computer to write. The text looks, on the screen, too much like a book. It's not a book - it's a bad first draft of something that could one day be a book.”

Writing Book One Day Computer

Author:Lauren Groff

“When I write a note, it sticks in my head differently.”

Writing Sticks Notes

Author:Don Mattingly

“When I write a novel I start each morning by reading for 20 minutes.”

Writing Reading Morning Novel Minutes

Author:Richard Ford

“When I write a novel, every word is mine. I welcome suggestions from my editor, but in the end, I make all the final decisions.”

Writing Ends Decision Novel Mines Finals Welcome Editors Suggestions

Author:Louis Sachar

“When I write a novel, I have what I think of as an icon that helps get me into the world of the book.”

Thinking World Writing Book Helping Novel Icons

Author:Anna Quindlen

“When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has come through from somewhere else.”

Knows Writing Wells Written Pages Somewhere Else

Author:Gerald Brenan

“When I write a paper, I change my notation much more than I change my concepts.”

Writing Paper Concepts Statistics

Author:Leslie Lamport

“When I write a play, my whole intent at bottom is to get the audience to be in the cast, to get that audience on stage with the actors and to get them thoroughly involved in what's going on.”

Writing Play Whole Actors Audience Stage Involved Bottom Casts

Author:Jules Feiffer

“When I write a political column for the Chicago Sun-Times, when liberals disagree with me, they send in long, logical e-mails explaining all my errors. I hardly ever get well-reasoned articles from the right. People just tell me to shut up. That's the message: "Shut up. Don't write anymore about this. Who do you think you are?"”

People Thinking Writing Wells Long Political Sun Messages Errors Logical Chicago Disagree Articles Mail Shut Up Explaining Columns Get Well

Author:Roger Ebert

“When I write a project, it might be something that I want to do and then when I look at it, I'm actually like, "I kind of don't want to direct it." I don't know why, I still love it enough for it to be made and to support it, but I don't want to direct it. I just give it to other directors and they do a good job!”

Giving Writing Kind Enough Support Direct Good Job

Author:Noel Clarke

“When I write a scientific treatise, I might reach 100 people. When the 'National Geographic' covers a project, it communicates about plants and fish and underwater technology to more than 10 million people.”

People Writing Might Millions Technology Projects Plant Fishes Communicate Underwater National Geographic

Author:Sylvia Earle

“When I write a screenplay - and I think this is true for a lot of people - you direct the movie. Thats what writing a screenplay is.”

People Thinking Writing Direct Screenplays

Author:John Patrick Shanley

“When I write a song it's always from the point of view: makes the song the best it can be.”

Writing Song Views Point Of View

Author:Gloria Estefan

“When I write a song today, basically it goes on the stage tomorrow. That's the way it works. You cannont interrupt your consciousness; it all comes from the subconscious, it can happen anywhere. It could be in a telephone booth.”

Way Writing Happens Today Song Consciousness Stage Goes On Tomorrow Songwriting Subconscious Telephones

Author:Richie Havens

“When I write a song, I always start on acoustic guitar, because that's a good test of a song, when it's really open and bare. You can often mislead yourself if you start with computers and samples and programming because you can disguise a bad song.”

Ifs Writing Song Computer Tests Guitar Programming Disguise Mislead Acoustics Sample Acoustic Guitar

Author:Martin Gore

“When I write a song, I see a tunnel, and then the chorus is an open space, or the bassline is doing this shape. I see songs as a more of a geometric, spacial experience.”

Writing Song Chorus Geometric

Author:Bjork

“When I write a song, I tap into the emotion and the feeling and then I use the emotion to write the words. It's the opposite when I act. I use the words and tap into the emotion.”

Writing Use Feelings Song Emotion Opposites

Author:Jill Scott

“When I write a song, it comes from the heart and is based on a specific experience. You can't really say that one experience is greater than another, because all of your experiences take you through life on this journey.”

Writing Heart Song Greater Journey

Author:Yolanda Adams

“When I write a song, it's all about the riff - the riff first, then the words come later.”

Writing Firsts Song

Author:Evan Dando

“When I write a story, I just wanna tell you what's in my head. It can come from real life and then turn into fantasy, stuff just rhyming. And write about what you know. I just like to tell stories that have not been told or [told] from my perspective.”

Knows Writing Real Stories Turns Stuff Fantasy Perspective Real Life Rhyming

Author:Nas

“When I write a story, it's not like I'm thinking about what I'm doing”

Thinking Writing Stories

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“When I write a word in English, a simple one, such as, say, 'chief,' I have unwittingly ushered a querulous horde into the room. The Roman legionary is there, shaking his 'cap,' or head, and Al Cap is there, slouching in his signature working man's headgear.”

Men Writing Simple Rooms Chiefs Shaking Caps Signatures Horde Working Man

Author:Geraldine Brooks

“When I write about "realizations," I am describing a state in which a practitioner has wisdom of who she or he is, and has embodied that wisdom; it has become integrated into daily life, thoughts, and activities. We often view "awakening" as first step towards such realization. Awakening can occur in the blink of an eye, frequently through the direct, heart-opening (heart-breaking) transmission of grace from an awakened teacher.”

Source: Limitless Mind: A Guide to Remote Viewing and Transformation of Consciousness

“When I write about my childhood I think, oh my God, how did I ever get from there to here? Not that any great thing has happened to me. But I felt so tiny, so lost.”

Thinking Writing Lost Felt Happened Childhood Tiny Great Things

Author:Paul Theroux

“When I write about yesterday, it is my hope to impact today so that I can change tomorrow. - The Affidavit of Niedria Dionne Kenny”

Writing Author Writer Writers Authors Niedria Kenny Freely Speaking

Author:Niedria Dionne Kenny

“When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.”

Writing Dark Evening Prose Shade Purple

Author:Cyril Connolly

Source: Enemies of Promise

“When I write after dark", observed Cyril Connolly, "the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose”

Writing Dark Evening Prose Shade Purple

Author:Anne Fadiman

Source: At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays

“When I write an article, I aim for it to shrink the diameter of intellectual space. It should make connections, make the reader's world a little more coherent.”

Writing Connections Coherence

Author:Lloyd N. Trefethen

Source: TREFETHEN'S INDEX CARDS: FORTY YEARS OF NOTES ABOUT PEOPLE, WORDS AND MATHEMATICS

“When I write an email where I outlined a whole scene, it just came out of my unconscious, it comes from a deeper place. The same thing happens when the actors go, take after take, and just get lost in it. When you're in a house, you don't think about being in the house; you're just there.”

Thinking Writing Whole Happens Actors House Lost Scene Deeper Things Happen Unconscious Email

Author:David O. Russell

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